Big Bang

 The evolution of the world can be compared to a display of fireworks that has just ended;

some few red wisps, ashes and smoke.

Standing on a well-chilled cinder,

we see the slow fadings of the suns,

and we try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of worlds.


-- Georges Lemaitre


Quoted by Thomas Hertog in "On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory"


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